Chronology

Death and Burial

Brackets indicate dates and entries that follow logically from information in primary sources but are not explicitly stated.

1889

November

Over Varina's objections, travels to Brierfield via New Orleans; ill
by the time boat reaches Brierfield on the 6th, so taken on to
Vicksburg; goes back to Brierfield the next day

November 12

Taken to New Orleans on a steamboat; Varina meets the vessel while
traveling upriver; both lodge with longtime friend Jacob U. Payne, a
cotton merchant, at this home in the Garden District at the corner of
First and Camp

December 5

Utters last words, reported to have been "Pray excuse me, I cannot
take it" (in reference to medicine being offered him by Varina)